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I would like to take a momentto give you a quick update wherewe are and where we are head-ing. On a personal note, thispast year has had mixed results.In some areas we have doneextremely well, and in otherswe have taken a couple stepsbackwards. However, as I sitthinking about where we are, Ibelieve this coming year will be
a very good year. It is primar-ily because we have a numberof motivated people sitting inkey positions ready to move theprogram forward. All in all, I amquite pleased with our standingin the region and nation. It isbecause of all your hard workthat we are doing so well.
We are now finishing themonth of December, so this is
a great time to report where weare. At the end of FY 2009, weflew 1098 hours. In FY 2008,we flew 644 hours. This is asignicant accomplishment and
it could not have been donewithout the tremendous supportof the State of Wyoming andtheir financial support and the
Wyoming Military Department.We currently rank 20 out of52 for aircraft utilization; weended up ranking 12 out of 52at the end of FY 2009. We havemade great strides in conductingB-12 ying; we currently have a
C-17/B-12 ration of 524%. Thisis huge. In spite of this goodnews, not all of the crews aretaking advantage of the B-12
prociency ying. Additionally,our cadets need to receive orien-tation ights; so far, only 65%
of all our cadets have receiveda flight, and they are eligiblefor 9 ights; this is down from
a high of 74%. We are planninganother orientation ying week-end for this summer.
Aerospace Educat ion Presently, 50% of our members
have received the Yeager award,and we again met and exceededour goal of 12 members earn-ing this award for 2009. I amseeing some advancement inthe Aerospace Education spe-cialty track. Naturally, I wouldlike to see more. This is a great
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In the spirit of volunteering, I joined Civil AirPatrol early in the spring of 2009. Having been a
volunteer reghter and EMT for Jackson Hole Fire/EMS, my volunteering ceased with this organizationwhen the re department hired me on full time. For
over a year the quest to nd just the right volunteer
effort had been my challenge.Thanks to a thrilling autumn plane ride in Bill
Jepsens red and white spunky Bonanza, I found my
calling when a mutual friend mentioned that perhapsI should take my excitement from this plane ride andjoin Civil Air Patrol. Immediately, I jumped on thephone and started making phone calls.
One April Friday afternoon, taking leave of workearly, I joined pilot Al LaPointe at the Jackson hangar
for some Mission Observer training. Earlier in theweek, we had all heard about the small plane crashover Togwotee Pass. I followed the radio trafc on
the county dispatch, hoping Civil Air Patrol would getcalled and staying very close to my cell phone for anopportunity to search from the air. I recall the sky waslled with strong, dark storm cells. The pilot, Donald
Ballard and his 16 year old daughter, both remarkablyalive and only slightly injured, were able to get cell
phone reception and happened to have a cell phonewith a GPS locator. Our plane was not needed.
That afternoon with Al, after listening to Beckertones and watching the movement of the signal, wemade a ight over the Togwotee area to have a look.
The wreck had been own over by our CAP plane the
weekend before with no visual conrmation of the
crash site. So we took a gander.Keying up the coordinates, Al ew me around
the rugged country east of Pilot Butte. I knew thiscountry from my past winter career of snowmobile
guiding. Rugged draws drop off the butte, inaccessi-ble country for snowmobiles and a mountain drawingthe line between the oceans; the Continental Divide.I noticed telephone poles below and used them asa landmark reference as we made our second looparound the coordinates. On the third pass, almost tothe end of our loop, I saw it. Something out of place.A straight line where no straight lines should be. Atthat moment, I realized how difcult it is to tell your
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pilot where to go, how to circle around and nd that
place after going by, and how very much the land-scape all looked the same!
The pictures prove we found the crash site again
and again. Making the clockwise loop, I photo-graphed the site from the air, a visual rendition of justhow difcult it is to pick out a white plane in white
snow, buried in a tree-lled ravine.
By the time Sunday of that same weekend hadarrived a ground adventure was put into action.The day held promise of clouds clearing and snowmelting. My husband, Michael and I gathered upour snow shoes, loaded the dogs in the car, put newbatteries in the GPS and headed up Togwotee Pass.A photograph and coordinates were stuffed into a
backpack with water and some snacks. Just in case,we brought along a cell phone, way out of reach ofsignal by the time we hit Togwotee Lodge.
Much was learned as we gazed at the straightline of the GPS and the rugged country around. Withpatience and persistence, we arrived at the spot wherethe GPS announce we had found our target. Deepwithin heavy timber, a circle search was employedto at last discover the wrecked plane. I felt like I hadcome full circle. Listening intently to the rescue ofDonald Ballard and his daughter after their crash,ying over the site and nding the plane from the air
and hiking into the wrecked plane gave me a threedimensional layer to this site on the Togwotee Pass.
As I look ahead to my volunteer work with CivilAir Patrol, I hope for adventures like these. May I beable to offer up a helping hand when needed, get a seaton the plane, have Al LaPointe as my pilot, y over the
mountains of northwest Wyoming and a blue sky daywith little turbulence. Thanks for having me CAP!
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Wyoming Wing DDR (Drug DemandReduction) Middle School Outreach has begun
a n e w a tT o r r i n g t o nMiddle School.This year in theform of a brandnew electiveoffered to anys tudent whowants to signup, regardlessof grade level.
O u r s t u -dents are learn-ing about DDRc o m b i n e dw i t h A E X
DDR Outreach
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On July 4th 2009, the Laramie
Valley Composite Squadronset up a booth at the FreedomHas A Birthday celebration inLaramie. Wyoming. Thanks alot to the following memberswho helped with the booth; Capt.
Gery Simpson, 1st Lt. PhillipDuran, 1st Lt. Chris Callus, 1stLt. Vance Hoyt, 1st Lt. AdamMunn, SM Ellen Hubenthal,C/CMSgt Christopher Gross,C/A1C Matthew Hayek, C/A1CKatelyn Munn, C/Amn BrandonMumn. Our Squadron appre-
Laramies Annual
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BirthdayContinued . . .
On July 28, 2009, the Laramie Valley
Composite Squadron hosted a booth at the AlbanyCounty 4H Fair Family Night for recruiting newpeople. The following members attended theevent: Capt. Gary Chizevcr, Capt. Gery Simpson,1st Lt. Vance Hoyl, C/CMSgt Christopher Gross,and C/AB Grayson Veniegas. Cadet Gross was in
charge of the booth at the event.Two weeks before the event, Cadet Gross
suggested setting up another recruitment booth (inaddition to the 4th of July event) to try to recruit
new members to the squadron. Everybody thoughtit was a great idea and Cadet Gross went to the
Family Night at theAlbany County 4H Fair
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ciated the help of Col. Stan
Skrabut and 1st Lt. Adam Munnfor the yers and decorations for
our booth at the event.The day started at 0900
hours, (9am for most of us) withgroups of people setting up tentsand displays to show to the restof the community. More thanhalf of Laramie was at the parkthat day. As the day went on,the weather became warmer and
people had to put sunscreen andmosquito repellent on to protectthemselves from the sun andmosquitoes (hey, safety rst).
All of the members presentenjoyed talking to the many people that were there.The Cadets had a little competition to see howmany brochures and yers they could hand out to
recruit people.
At the end of the day (1600 hours or 4pm),with everyone tired and the public heading home,the members packed up their stuff and headed forhome in high hopes that they recruited someone.
fairgrounds to pay for the booth. When the daynally came to set up the booth, Cadet Gross was
very anxious about how everything would turnout. Lt. Hoyt came down to the fairgrounds to helpCadet Gross set up the booth. They used the samesupplies that Col. Skrabut gave them for the 4th ofJuly booth. The family night nally began at 4:00
pm, and all went well until it started hailing (dontworry, our booth was inside a building).
All in all, the booth was successful and themembers headed home with high hopes of recruit-ing a few people to the squadron.
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turn off the beacon but collectall the pieces of the plane andlook for survivors.
We also had a very basicmini lesson about communi-cations in preparation for thenext BCUT (basic communica-tions training) we will hold. Wecooked all our meals, exceptone. We had MREs for that one.
Sunday morning we broke
camp and headed to the GlendoAir eld for the annual Fly In.
The cadets enjoyed meeting com-munity members and made new friendsof the local RC (remote control) planeclub and a local 4H club. We even gotour picture next to a bright yellow J3 and
met the pilot, a very nice gentleman wholearned to y the J3 as a boy, taught by
his grandfather.We will be doing more of these kinds
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On December 11-12 2009the members of WheatlandComposite Squadron and resi-dents of Wheatland, tended to528 wreaths earned to honorand remember our veterans atour 4th annual event locally,
held in conjunction with theAnnual Ceremony at Arlington,Virginia.
State Auditor Rita Meyerattended with us and spoke tous for a few minutes. She men-tioned how important it was thatyounger children learn of thesacrifices made by veterans. Acombat veteran herself, havingserved during Desert Storm,Meyer also stated how happy
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s he a l ways was t ocome to Platte Countyfor these events sinceveterans turned out ingreat numbers. Thelocal VFW honoredus with a color guard
and t he manyd e p a r t m e n t so f t h e T o w no f W h e a t l a n dpitched in to helplay the gravesidewreaths. Special thanks tothe town street crew forplowing our roadways inand to the cemetery.
Our cemetery workersare awesome people theyspent countless hours pre-
paring and gathering other townemployees to help us.
The local Fire Departmentand the folks from EasternWyoming Ambulance Service
escorted us down 16th St. to theveterans monument at the cem-
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up as a fundraiser for squadrons,our cadets opted to apply as a 2for location, which means wegot a free wreath for every twosold rather than receive fundsfor their own use. As a com-mander, I can say I am VERYproud of our cadets for theirdesire to have wreaths for moreveterans rather than receive$470 for ourselves, not that wecouldnt find someplace to use
that money, but its gratifying toknow our cadets are becominggood citizens who care about thesacrice of others. H
etery with a grand lights andsirens display. Thanks to thehelpful folks at the Platte CountyServices for Seniors organiza-tion for the use of their buildingfor our indoor ceremony.
The members of the unithave spent the better part of6 months raising money topurchase these reduced pricewreaths made especially forWreaths Across America by theWorcester Wreath Company ofHarrington, Maine. Each wreath
was $15. We held raffles, col-lected money at summer eventsand placed jars around townat stores to allow people the
chance to help.We earned only enough for
14 wreaths, but the generosityof the Wreath Company madeit possible to receive 528. Weplaced several extra wreaths atthe Guernsey Cemetery as well.We also received a second set ofceremonial wreaths for that cem-
etery. Thanks to thosegreat folks at WorcesterWreath Company.
We also stopped at avery small cemetery inDwyer, WY home to a
lone Civil War veteranand placed a wreath forhim at his graveside.
We are proud to bethe only Wyoming Wingsquadron to contributeto this nationwide CAPevent. Although it is set
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The Civil Air Patrols Wreaths Across America program began in 2006 as an offshoot of the Arlington
National Cemetery wreath project, which was started in 1992 with the annual placement of wreathsdonated by Worcester Wreath Co. The program has mushroomed in a short time. With its patriotic themeand its increasing visibility, Wreaths Across America is an ideal program for promotion of CAP and thepatriotic values CAP holds dear.
CAPs goal as part of the Wreaths Across America observances:
To honor the sacrices of veterans through the sponsorship of wreaths and wreath-laying observances
throughout the U.S. and at Arlington National Cemetery To attract national and local publicity for CAP in general and its Wreaths Across America program in
particular through activities implemented by NHQ/PA and through PAOs at the wing and squadron levels To honor those who have served our countrys military, including CAP women
As the local face of CAP in your community, you have the power to shape the public awareness ofWreaths Across America and Civil Air Patrol in your community. There are a variety of ways you can dothis. Some ideas may work better than others depending on your squadrons existing community relation-ships and the resources available in your community. Use your creativity and hard work to make the mostof this excellent and worthwhile nationwide event.
About Wreaths Across Amerca
CAP is a Wreaths Across America partner. The nonprot organizations mission is to remember, honor
and teach about the service and sacrices of our nations veterans
Begun in 2006, Wreaths is as an offshoot of the Arlington National Cemetery wreath project, whichwas started in 1992 with the annual placement of wreaths donated by Worcester Wreath Co. of Maine The 10,000 wreaths designated for Arlington are transported on a 750-mile journey from Harrington,Maine, after a sendoff ceremony. The route is one of the longest annual veterans celebrations, with
parades and ceremonies held at more than 20 stops along the way
last years observaces
180 CAP squadrons led almost half of 72 observances and assisted at many additional locations,including the wreath-layings at Arlington National Cemetery and abroad 241 CAP squadrons nationwide sponsored 15,00 wreaths More than 100,000 wreaths were sponsored by the public for placement on veterans graves in ceremo -nies in all 50 states Worcester Wreath Co. donated more than 17,000 wreaths for the remembrances, with 10,000 placed atArlington National Cemetery CAPs Arlington observances included a wreath-laying ceremony at the CAP Memorial, the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier and the Women in Military Service Memorial Civil Air Patrols National Honor Guard took part in a special ceremonial holiday wreath laying at the
U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. 51 wreaths donated by Worcester were presented during a special wreath laying ceremony held at eachstate capitol
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Cadets Matt Court, Evan Schmitzer, and TylerStovall joined Major Dennis Cornell and Lt. Col.Susan McDonald as we traveled to Ellsworth AFB
in South Dakota for summerencampment. The South Dakotaencampment is a joint encamp-ment with North Dakota.
When its held in South
Dakota it is an emergency ser-vices encampment.
This means the cadets attend-ing it not only get the usual earlymorning PT, classes in leader-ship and eld trips of a regular
encampment but a great bit ofthe encampment is taken upwith mastering their GroundTeam member skills.
2009 South Dakota
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There was also t ime totour the local museum at theentrance to the base wherethe awesome B1 bomber wasvisible and traveled to MountRushmore in the evening.
Cade t s Schmi t ze r andStovall attended as basics.Cadet Court was on cadet staff.Major Cornell was in charge ofcommunications and enjoyed
working with the encampmentcommander, Lt . Col. MikeMarek (who by the way is theCommunications director at NHQ).
Lt. Col. McDonald worked as theEncampment Logistics director.
The encampment was very wellplanned out and every staff members
input was valued. The Air Force per-sonnel on the base were helpful andfriendly. The facilities were very good.
The dining facilities staff was helpfuland courteous.The whole encampment was an
awesome experience. If you get thechance to attend in the futuretake it.H
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September 19th was the rst day of our brand
new Rocketry 4H Club in Wheatland in conjunc-tion with the Wheatland Composite Squadron.
We held a day long rocket day. Seven cadetsand 4 senior members met at Major Hawleys
hangar at Phifer Field in Wheatland.
We built, painted and launched our rockets.We ate lunch while watching October Skies, themovie about Homer Hickam. Major Hawley taught
the cadets how to measure the distance their rockettraveled after launch. He also gave them the grandtour of his Cherokee 140.
After the fun was over, we sat down to ourclubs rst business meeting.
C/SSgt Tyler Stoval was voted in as clubpresident, C/Amn Mason Jones as vice president
and C/Amn Te Ray Haynes as nance ofcer and
C/Amn Chris Will as Secretary.
Stats for the September 19th auch:Cadet Chrs W 390.7 ft
Cadet Chace Rosedah 371.2 ft
Cadet Sheby Ster 336.9 ft
Cadet Tyer Stova 300.8 ft
Cadet Reo Radford 270.6 ft
Cadet Maso Joes 222.3 ft
Cadet Te Ray Hayes 191.9 ft
The next project is to construct models ofhistorical rockets.
For the rst year, our club will be open to CAP
cadets. Next year we will work out a special sched-ule to include non-CAP members.
Anyone interested in Aviation, Aerospace,or learning more about CAP is asked to visit ameeting. We meet every Tuesday evening at theWFD Training Center on Cole St., just past therailroad tracks, at 6pm. Cadet members must be at
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least 12 and not greater than 18 years of age. Wealways need adult leadership. No military experi-ence needed. Currently we are looking for a grantwriter, character development ofcer or Chaplain,
and an admin/personnel ofcer.
Contac t Lt . Col . Susan McDonald a t07-1-5565.
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specialty track, and all seniormembers are encouraged to pur-
sue it. Finally, if your unit is notinvolved with the AerospaceEducation Excellence (AEX)program, I encourage you todo so. You can now enrollonline within e-Services. Weare also working on a TeacherOrientation Program where wewill have a chance to y teach-ers; this should be later in thespring.
Cadet Programs Presently,45% of our cadets have earnedthe Wright Brothers Award,12% have earned the MitchellAward, and % have earnedthe Earhart Award. No cadetshave earned the Eaker or SpaatzAward. I am not seeing muchmovement in this area, althoughWright Brothers and Mitchells
are slightly up; I would like to
see more. As I mentioned ear-lier, only 65% of cadets havehad an orientation flight. Ourgoal is 100%; if you are a cadetand have not flown with CAP;see your unit commander toschedule a ight.
E m e r g e n c y S e r v i c e s Presently, 81% of our mem-bers have complete GeneralEmergency Services training,
there is no change since lasttime I reported this. We are alsograded on the number of missionpilots we have. In order to meetthe standard set by national,we need 5 mission pilots foreach of our aircraft. Presently,we have .6 mission pilots peraircraft this is a decrease from
4.9. A number of our qualied
pilots let their qualications go;
I would like to get all capablemission pilots re-qualied.
Membership Naturally, wecan not get any of our missionsdone with out our membership.Unfortunately, we have seen ourmembership take a significantdip. At this time last year, wehad 6 cadets and 165 seniormembers. Presently, we have 60cadets and 164 senior members.
However, between last year andnow, we grew to 64 cadets ashigh and 175 senior members. Iwould like to see more emphasison cadet membership.
In February, we will beginour SAREX season; I hope youcan make it. These opportunitieshelp provide training and expe-rience so that we can best sup-port our great state and nation.
We will also be trying to put onan orientation weekend for thecadets; the last one was a greatsuccess. As I mentioned earlier,we will also be trying to put ona Teacher Orientation Programwith a school in Laramie andalso with the 4-H leadership.In addition, Wyoming will beassisting Colorado with theIACE program and sponsor-
ing international cadets for acouple of days; it will be overthe time the Thunderbirds arein Cheyenne. Finally, we areworking to have an encampmentin Wyoming.
In the beginning of the newyear, please expect a letter fromme. I will give a much more
detailed review of where we areand where we are going. Thanks
for all your hard work. I amlooking forward to even moresuccess in the future. Keep upthe great job.
As you can see, there area number of ways where yourindividual efforts help WyomingWing as a team. Please be agreat team player. Remember,T.E.A.M. Together EachAchieves More.
Well that is it for now. I lookforward to what the next threemonths brings us. In the mean-time, make a difference and getinvolved. Be safe in everythingyou do.
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From the 13th-20th June,
Cadets Christopher Gross andNathan Kamm attended theColorado Wing Encampment inColorado Springs, Colorado. Atthe beginning of Encampment,cadets did not want to be therebecause of all the yelling andbeing away from home. But, bythe end of the week, cadets got
so use to the yelling and beingaway from home, that they didnot want to leave.
Throughout the week, cadetswere taught drill, participated inseveral classes and competitions,memorized all of the memorywork, and received a full tour ofthe Air Force Academy (whatluck).
The Cadet S taf f a t the
Encampment, known as theCadre, were to teach the cadetsto become leaders. In order forthe cadets to become part of theCadre, the cadets had to showthe following cornerstones in allthey did: Teamwork, Discipline,
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Honor, and Excellence.There were three compe-
titions out of the whole week- V o l l e y b a l l , A e r o s p a c eKnowledge Bowl, and Drill.
On Thursday (June 18th)
the cadets were told that theywere going to run to get theirdinner (this was not punish-ment). This was the time for
we cadets to show the staff thatwe could all work as a team.The Medics said that all of theinjured people were going toride with them. But the injuredpeople with leg or knee injuriesgave their crutches to the med-ics and said, We will run withour fellow cadets, and fell intoformation. During the run, allof us cadets ran and encouraged
each other. Whenever a cadetstopped to take a breath, some-one came beside them, put theirarm around their waist and saidlets go, dont stop now. Every
once in a while the whole groupwould turn around and pick up a
straggler and putthem to the frontof the group.We had peoplesaying I cant
do this, this istoo hard, whileeverybody keptsaying Yes ,you can, dont
stop, just keeprunning. Wehad one cadet
say she was not able to do this
because of her knee and some-one said to her We started thisrun together as a group andwe are going to nish this as a
group, C/CMSgt ChristopherGross said. Not only did thecadets encourage each other,they also encouraged the staff tokeep going because a few werestarting to struggle. By the timewe got to mess hall, everyone
got together and started scream-ing as loud as they could, everysingle person yelled the VictoryCry, WE DID IT!!!! Whatawesome teamwork.
One goal at the Encampmentwas to make the CommandChief smile. Not only did we dothis, we made him speechless.He gave us all a speech that wewill not forget.
That evening, the Cadets hadone more job to do. We wereto nd puzzle pieces to make a
puzzle. After we got the puzzlepieces, we found out that therewas one missing. A cadet incharge said that the nal puzzle
piece was at the Parade Field.As we marched to the parade
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field, we could hear music playing. We had noidea what was going on. We soon found out. Thatnight, the basic cadets became part of the ColoradoWing Cadre. We were no longer basic cadets. Wewere part of the Colorado Wing Cadre.
When Graduation day came, parents came towatch their cadets graduate from Encampment. Itwas spectacular, as cadets did the pass-in-review,the parents cheered as they saw their sons or
daughter march by. After Graduation, every singlecadet went to nish cleaning up their barracks asthe parents went to watch a movie prepared by thePublic Affairs Staff. After everything was done,each cadet went through out-of-processing. Wewere sad to leave our new friends.
If you are interested in hearingsome of the stories about Encampment,talk to Cadets Gross and Kamm abouttheir experience. Trust me, we havestories to tell.
I encourage everyone who hasnot gone to encampment to pleasesign up for it. Its a great experience
and one that you wil l rememberforever. And, it will make the WingCommander happy. H
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On December 19th Cadets and senior ofcers of the
Wheatland unit tended to our last community service eventhelping the Salvation Armys bell ringing efforts with 26
man hours in donated time at the local Safeway store.The Salvation Army provides a lot of help to local
people at the holidays and during disasters. We are proudto help another nonprot provide help to those in need.
Those helping out that day were: Cadet SSgt Sam
Gutierrez, Cadet TSgt Tyler Stovall, Cadet SrA ShelbySterling, Cadet Airmen First Class Mason Jones and
Chris Will, 2nd Lt. George Schilreff, Major DennisCornell and unit commander Lt. Col. Susan McDonald.
Wheatland Composite SquadronAids Salvation Army
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